Benjamin, Walter

The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire

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ISBN 13:: 9780674022874
author:: Benjamin, Walter
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Harvard University Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2006
Pages:: 320
Dimensions:: 140mm X 210mm
Genre:: Poetry & poets: 19th century
Condition:: New
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Walter Benjamin's essays on Charles Baudelaire challenge our understanding of modernity and its impact on literature. In these works, Benjamin presents a complex figure: the poet caught in a struggle with the forces of urban commodity capitalism. Baudelaire is reimagined as a flâneur who affixes images to the city, a ragpicker who turns urban detritus into poetry. This modern artist must navigate the contradictions and paradoxes of modern life, commodifying his literary production in the process. The essays reveal Baudelaire as a social poet of the first rank. This collection presents Benjamin's essays on Baudelaire in chronological order, along with an introduction that aims to articulate and analyze the major motifs and problems in these works.

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